Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making eBook

ducknet.—­Its Use in Chesapeake
Bay.—­Manner of Constructing the Net.—­Decoy
Ducks.—­Bait for the Ducks.—­Thehooktrap.—­Its cruel Mode of Capture.—­Peculiar
Bait for Ducks.—­The “Fool’scap” Trap.—­Its Successful
Use in the Capture of the Crow.—­Shrewdness
of the Crow.—­Strange antics of a Crow when
Captured in the Trap.—­Bird Lime the Secret
of its Success.—­Wonderful Tenacity of the
Cap.—­Different Modes of Setting.—­Birdlime Described.—­Its astonishing “Sticky”
Qualities.—­The Bird Lime of the Trade.—­Various
“Home-Made” Recipes.—­Manner
of Using Bird Lime.—­Limed Twigs.—­The
Owl Used as a Decoy in connection with Bird Lime.—­Bird
Lime used in the Capture of the Humming Bird.—­A
Flower Converted into a Trap.—­Masticated
Wheat as Bird Lime.—­Its Ready Removal from
the Feathers.—­Delicate Organization of the
Humming Bird.—­Killed by Fright.—­Use
of its Plumage.—­Snares for the Humming
Bird.—­Blow Guns Successfully Used for its
Capture.—­Killed by Concussion.—­Disabled
by a Stream of Water.

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Miscellaneoustraps.

Thecommonboxtrap.—­Two
Modes of Setting.—­Animals for which it
is Adapted.—­A Modification of the Trap.—­Anotherboxtrap.—­Thefigurefourtrap.—­Its Advantages.—­Thedoubleender.—­A Favorite Trap
in New England.—­Simplicity of Construction.—­The
Rabbit’s Fondness for Salt.—­Its Use
as a Bait.—­Theselfsettingtrap.—­Animals for which it is adapted.—­Thedeadfall.—­Various Methods of
Construction.—­Animals for which it is usually
Set.—­Remarkable Cunning of some Animals.—­The
Precautions which it Necessitates.—­Bait
for the Muskrat.—­Various Baits for the Mink.—­Skunk
Baits.—­A Fox Entrapped by a Dead Fall.—­Slight
Modification in the Arrangement of Pieces.—­Live
Duck used as Bait.—­Another Arrangement for
the Dead Fall.—­Trap Sprung by the Foot
of the Animal.—­Thefigurefourtrap.—­Applied to the Dead Fall.—­Thegarotte.—­Its Singular Mode of Capture.—­Its
Common Victims.—­Thebowtrap.—­An
oddity of the Trap Kind.—­Its Singular mechanism.—­Themoletrap.—­A Much-needed Contrivance.—­Subterranean
Mode of Setting.—­Its Unfailing Success.—­A
fishtrap.—­A Section of Stove
Pipe used as a Trap.—­Its Various Victims.—­Adjustment
of the Bait.—­Curious Mode of Capture.